Look for next week's roundup at Thanks, But No Thanks then it's back here the week after that. You can find some other recent roundups in the "At the Law Schools 2" category, as well as sixty or so older roundups from 2004-2005 here. Finally, if you want to know how I choose posts to highlight, see "How I Write the Weekly Law School Roundup." (If you have a law-student weblog that I don't seem to know about or that isn't in my blogroll, please send me an email.)

May 20, 2010

May 17, 2010

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH . . . On this week's New York Times Book Review Podcast, lawyer-novelist Scott Turow had this to say about how the practice of law has changed in the past twenty-five years--

I still think being a lawyer is about having a part in trying to do justice. And it doesn't work out a lot of the time. But it's still a really noble enterprise, compared to the alternative of not trying at all. Too many lawyers lose their sense of alliance with those higher purposes and that's a lot of what's happened in the last twenty-five years, as firm profits have become the driving engine for a lot of what goes on in the practice of law.

The rest of the podcast was less clichéd (and more comprehensible), as Turow talked about his new novel, Innocent, which is out this month.

May 13, 2010

A RETURN TO MEXICO CITY? . . . Here's the Mexican flag flying at the National Palace in Mexico City---

In the past few years, I've been to Mexico City twice -- and blogged about both trips. For those in the mood for travel-blogging, links with additional photos are here: trip one and trip two (posts one and two).

Now I'm thinking--is it time for a return? For now, I'm undecided . . .

May 12, 2010

UMBERTO ECO AT iTUNES U . . . On the way to the office this morning, I listened to Umberto Eco's lecture "How I Write." Anyone who thinks about fictional technique will find it enjoyable, as will fans of Eco's novels. It's available at the "iTunes U" part of the iTunes store. If there's a direct link, I can't find it.

Eco's lecture took place at Emory University, which was responsible for getting it onto iTunes. Last year, Emory stated that its various iTunes lectures have accounted for more than a million downloads.

You can find some contemporaneous notes about Eco's lecture here. They're from Mark Larson, who attended.

Look for next week's roundup at Thanks, But No Thanks then it's back here the week after that. You can find some other recent roundups in the "At the Law Schools 2" category, as well as sixty or so older roundups from 2004-2005 here. Finally, if you want to know how I choose posts to highlight, see "How I Write the Weekly Law School Roundup." (If you have a law-student weblog that I don't seem to know about or that isn't in my blogroll, please send me an email.)

May 04, 2010

May 01, 2010

INNOCENT . . . At Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, Sarah Weinman writes about the "media blitz" leading up to Innocent, Scott Turow's sequel to Presumed Innocent. Weinman links to some profiles and includes some material from her B&N Review interview with Turow that was cut for space. Meanwhile, Turow is also profiled in the new issue of Poets & Writers, but the article isn't available online.